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Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, who have been spearheading the separatist Nagaland movement under the banner National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah faction) for over two decades, are arriving here on Sunday at the invitation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resume the stalled dialogue with the Government.

An anti-terrorist team of the Pakistan Elite Force has arrested three mosque imams for being linked to banned militant organization Jaish-i- Muhammad and seized a large quantity of explosives and weapons.

Danish Foreign Minister says that Denmark has put forward proposal to bring to an the scourge of terrorism in the international institutions such as United Nations and European Union. He added that Denmark while taking measures against the international terrorism, also taking appropriate actions to handle this completely on a new approach.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who flew into Bangalore, India’s IT capital after two day talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his colleagues here, has categorically stated that India must have veto rights ‘if it were to become a permanent member of the UN Security Capital’.

Asif Ali Zardari, spouse of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said that there was no need for a President in army uniform in democratic set up and Pakistan needs complete return of democracy in letter and spirit.

Since independence in 1948 the system in Sri Lanka has been devised to alienate the broad masses of the people from the decision making and planning process that largely affected their lives to maintain the hegemony of Sinhalese and Tamil elites. The LTTE in the north and the JVP in the south harnessed this situation to unleash rebellions against the state controlled by this elitist group.

Even as jailed Hindu Seer Jayendra Saraswati, the Sankaracharya of Kanchi Mutt (monastery) is expected to knock at India’s apex court next week for relief in the murder and assault cases slapped on him and his detention since November 12, the police are squirming with reports on the arrest of Appu, the prime accused in the case. They interrogated the mangers of the Kanchi mutt for about an hour.

Extremism often thrives on chaos. The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) was born out of the chaos created by Sinhala-Buddhists supremacists after the untimely (though entirely natural) demise of Ven. Gangodwila Soma Thero. It is therefore understandable that this Creature of Chaos should consider the reactivation of chaos as the best way out of the crisis of survival it is facing today.

Rebuffed by Congress over alliance in Bihar and reprimanded by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh over his war of words with Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, Lok Janshakti Party chief and Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Ramvilas Paswan has opened channels of communication with Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party and Samajwadi Party.